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A Veto in the Senate?

Updated July 28, 2006 12:01 a.m. ET

It has been 10 years since a line-item veto was passed by Congress -- and eight years since the Supreme Court struck it down. But now the Senate has a chance to try again. Congressman Paul Ryan's line-item-veto bill passed the House last month in a bipartisan vote. Can the Senate duplicate the feat?

History suggests it can, if partisanship and Senate egos don't get in the way. A look at the voting histories of Senators from both parties reveals that, by our count, 65 members of the world's greatest deliberative body have...